Cloud Systems Engineer
Does managing and extending massive cloud platforms get your creative mind racing? Do you love building and debugging open-source, LAMP-stack architectures? Do you want to manage the largest sites on the planet?
Acquia is looking for expert, passionate systems engineers and systems administrators to help us grow our second-to-none Managed Cloud and Dev Cloud Drupal hosting services. We manage over 2,500 AWS EC2 servers powering some of the world's most popular Drupal web sites. Our Drupal Gardens service is running over 75,000 web sites!
Responsibilities
- Constantly improve the performance and reliability of our hosting platforms
- Debug intriguing LAMP stack problems
- Work closely with customer support and engineering to deliver second-to-none SaaS and PaaS services
- Maintain and enhance cloud management and monitoring tools
- Participate in an on-call, operations support rotation
- Capacity planning
What We're Looking For
- Passion for web site configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
- Deep, working knowledge of web, database, and OS server configuration (Linux, Apache, and MySQL preferred platforms)
- Holistic understanding of the Internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer.
- Experience in a 24x7 hosting environment
- Experience with monitoring tools, scripting, and internet security
- 3 to 5 years of related experience
Extra Credit
- Cloud hosting experience (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus)
- Monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, Splunk, GrayLog2m BMC, OpenView)
- Configuration management (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Subversion, Git)
- Scripting experience with PHP, Perl, Python, or Ruby
- Web security (e.g., IDS systems, DOS prevention)
- Scalable hosting cluster experience (e.g., nginx, Varnish, GlusterFS, etc.)
- Drupal experience
Hiring in multiple locations: Burlington, MA, Portland, OR, and Oxford, UK.
